Walking into the record books
Date published: 18 June 2009
WALKING with a message for drivers to cut their speed . . . Whitegate End pupils
AROUND 150,000 pupils, police officers and staff who took part in a national attempt to break the world record for the largest “walking bus” may have smashed the record.
The road safety charity Brake organised the event getting as many schools as it could involved in a bid to break the current record of 57,476 participants.
Hundreds of youngsters from Clarksfield School, Broadfield School, Hathershaw; Whitegate End Primary School and Burnley Brow, Chadderton, and neighbourhood police joined in a short walk around their neighbourhoods to drive home the message that speed kills.
Sarah Fatica, Brake’s general manager, said she was confident the record had been smashed, adding: “We now have to collate all the information, verify it and then send it off to Guinness to see if we have broken the world record — we’re confident we have.”
